> 	At power on it displays "KA42 v1.3",  so I assume that means
> it is a KA42 Cpu. It has 8Meg of RAM (woo woo) and two SCSI hard
> drives, if the exact type is needed I'll get the info.

KA42 is is the microvaxIII aka cvax cpu.  fairly fast.  8meg on that 
system running vms would handle decwindows and several users.  Under 
netBSD it's marginal from what I've seen.

If it an m38 it's usable I believe the current ports do not support the 
m76 (someone check me on that?).

It would help you to know what size disks you have.  

> 	I'd really like to get this dog booted, but its really just going
> to be used as a toy, with 8Meg I don't see it becoming anything with
> any real purpose. Also, I was wondering about the Video on this

If real vm is implmented 8mb is more than enough as the video is not 
supported anyway.  

> machine. I was under the impression that it has an 8 plane video sub-
> system?? (DEC technician talking in that foreign DEC lingo again)

1280x1024 color with lots of bits per pixel and faster than PC. Makes a 
hell of a workstation.

> I thought that I would have to boot it from a dumb terminal, but I get
> nothing on the dumb term ever, so would it be correct to assume that
> it isn't a Graphics station and that everything should be displayed on
> the console just fine??

NetBSD will force a terminal on you.  There is a switch on the back to 
enable/disable the use of the graphics console or printer port as 
console.



Allison